Travel Tip: Art and Archaeology in GermanyBack to the Beginnings: Treasures from Early Civilizations in the Aegean at the Collection of Classical Antiquities

Back to the Beginnings: Treasures from Early Civilizations in the Aegean at the Collection of Classical Antiquities GERMANYBERLIN • Altes Museum • Ongoing

This small exhibition on the upper floor of the Altes Museum draws on exemplary objects within the Collection of Classical Antiquities' own holdings to put the spotlight on the Aegean Bronze Age and the material legacy of the developments that occurred during this period, which climaxed in the region's 'palace culture'.

The Collection of Classical Antiquities presides over several treasures from protohistory already familiar to scholars and the general public, as well as objects dating from the Aegean Bronze Age that are not very well known at all. The museum shop on the Altes Museum's upper floor now displays around 50 objects distributed in 10 exhibition cases. On show are previously exhibited, well-known finds, such as the burial complex of the island Syros (an Early Bronze Age burial complex with outstanding stone vessels), Cycladic idols, anthropomorphic terracotta and bronze statuettes, a Late Bronze Age tomb complex from the Değirmentepe necropolis at Miletus. Alongside them however some unusual, peculiar vessels, masterpieces of Late Bronze Age pottery and several items of jewellery.